Posts Tagged: sunflower bees
Here Come the Sun(Flowers)
You can't drive by a sunflower field without smiling. Their golden heads turned toward the sun, their fringed petals aglow, sunflowers set an...
Honey bee heads for a sunflower in a field off Pedrick Road, Dixon. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of honey bee foraging on a sunflower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Row of hives along sunflower field on Pedrick Road, Dixon, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bee Heaven
A field of green ribboned in yellow.Anyone who drives down Pedrick Road in Dixon, Calif., and sees the spectacular sunflower fields can't help but...
Honey bee foraging on sunflower in a field off Pedrick Road, Dixon. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Dixon, Calif. farmland ablaze with sunflowers. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Close-up of sunflowers. Just add bees. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Head's up! A lone sunflower head towers above the field as bees buzz toward to it. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Carrying a Lot of 'Baggage'
If she were boarding an airline, she'd be charged double for baggage. But she didn't and she wasn't. She's a pollen-packed sunflower bee enjoying...
Svastra obliqua expurgata (Cockerell). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Svastra obliqua expurgata (Cockerell) leaves the flower. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)